5For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:


In Context

2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.

3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 3:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner in former times the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: